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Updated: June 5, 2025
In the room upstairs, Poisson, the husband, a man of thirty-five, with a cadaverous-looking countenance and carroty moustaches and beard, was seated working at a table near the window. He was making little boxes. His only tools were a knife, a tiny saw the size of a nail file and a pot of glue.
"The old man's head is showing age, showing age! Getting thin up there, ain't it?" The old Colonel bent to his work with studied abstraction, and even when Amos said, judicially, after long scrutiny: "Yes, he'll soon be as bald as a plate," he only lifted one yellow, freckled, bony hand, and brushed his carroty growth of hair across the spot under discussion.
One was tall he grew to be gigantic in height before we had done with him; he of course had black hair and by-and-by it hung in elf-locks over his forehead and down his back. The other was short and broad and a hump sprouted out on his shoulder before we heard the last of him; he had red hair which deepened into carroty; and she was almost sure he had a cast in the eye a decided squint.
"Your hair is bronze, not carroty, and that apricot shade of pink tones in with it beautifully. What a glorious mass of white lilacs! I never saw any so fine." "They're wonderful. I insisted on keeping them right here, I'm so fond of the fragrance. They came from Mr. King," said Anne frankly. "And a note from him says he's here in the hospital with an injured back. I'm so sorry.
I shall proceed there immediately, He is a strange-looking fellow, added the Doctor: 'were it not for his carroty locks, I should scarcely take him for a native. 'Hem! said the Squire, 'I have my suspicions.
It has developed no clearly marked varieties; some specimens, however, seem to be more distinctly annual than others, though attempts to isolate these and thus secure a quick-maturing variety seem not to have been made. Description. The fleshy root, about 1/2 inch in diameter, is yellowish externally, whitish within, and has a slight carroty taste.
He presented a most unlovely spectacle his face, swollen and crimson with fury, seemed twice its usual size, his little piggy eyes rolled in his head like those of a man threatened with apoplexy and the oily perspiration stood upon his brow and trickled from his carroty hair in great drops.
He invents eccentric costumes; his sleeves reach no further than just below his elbows, his trouser hems flick his calves; he wears, inveterate tradition of the circus clown, a ridiculously little hard felt hat on the top of his shock of carroty hair. He paints his nose red and extends his grin from ear to ear. He racks his brain to invent novelties in manual dexterity.
Cornet Gahagan . . . Ensign Hicks, of the Sappers and Miners. Hicks received a ball in his jaw, and was half choked by a quantity of carroty whisker forced down his throat with the ball. Captain Macgillicuddy, B.N.I. Cornet Gahagan. I was run through the body, but the sword passed between the ribs, and injured me very slightly. Captain Macgillicuddy, B.N.I. Mr.
"We will pretend that green is fashionable for ladies with a sort of carroty complexion," and she laughed, and so did Brighteyes, whose nose twinkled just like the diamond in mother's ring, or baby's eyes, when he is happy. So the two little friends sat down on a grassy bank, in the shade of an oak tree, and they made the carrot doll. Oh, it was such fun!
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